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Senate advances tax checkoff to rebuild meth-damaged homes; sponsor cites self-funding and administrative costs
Summary
Senate Bill 12, a two-year individual income tax checkoff to fund rebuilding homes damaged by methamphetamine production via Habitat for Humanity, was advanced to third reading. Sponsors said the fund is restricted and self-funding but acknowledged the fiscal note indicates about one-third of donations could pay administrative costs.
Senate Bill 12, a taxpayer income-tax checkoff intended to create a restricted fund for Habitat for Humanity to repair homes damaged by methamphetamine manufacture, was presented and advanced by the Senate.
Sponsor Senator Maine described the measure as a checkoff similar to other voluntary contributions on the income tax form. "This is a checkoff. This is for your income tax checkoff. This is self funding and this is for Habitat for Humanity to take methamphetamines homes that have been damaged and rebuild them," Maine said on the floor (transcript contains a sponsor-spoken form of the organization name; the established organization name is Habitat for Humanity).
Senators pressed the sponsor on the fiscal note; one senator asked whether a third of every dollar would be used for administrative costs and called that level of overhead inefficient. Maine said he had asked and would seek additional clarification on the third reading. There was no recorded public opposition during committee, the sponsor said.
The Senate voted to advance SB 12 to the third-reading calendar; the clerk reported the roll-call result as 27 yea votes, 0 nay votes, 2 absent.
